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FINAL DRAFT: REFLECTIONS ON LIFE<\/h3>\n

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ISBN 9-780720-619614
\nPeter Owen Publishers[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]ROSEMARY FRIEDMAN signs off a long and successful writing career with Final Draft, a perceptive, moving and frequently witty collection of essays on what it means to be human<\/strong>.\u00a0Throughout the author’s observations on such seminal subjects as truth, beauty, love, war and death, counter-balanced by the pleasures of walking in the park, lying in the bath or recalling her grandmother’s chicken soup, the reader will recognize the spirit of 16th century essayist,\u00a0Michel de Montaigne<\/em>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]Using her m\u00e9tier Friedman skilfully recreates a world of impressions on topics as diverse as sex, travel, music and kindness, while close observation of her subject’s hands, and how they employ them, reveals their owners’ secrets. She comments on the use of the clich\u00e9, our preoccupation with the cyber-world and the current obsession with ‘clean eating’, from the point of view of one who grew up during wartime rationing. She does not shrink from addressing such topics as growing old, failing health and the overwhelming sense of grief and loss engendered by the death of loved ones.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]Friedman concludes that although we are not all able to leave an imprint upon the sands of time, one should embrace a wide range of experience and develop a balance of hope over despair. When we come to the end of this sagacious and insightful ‘final draft’ we realize that we know both the world – and ourselves – a little better.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]Praise for Rosemary Friedman’s writing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“As affecting as it is intelligent.” \u00a0\u00a0The Times<\/strong><\/em>
\n“Highly recommended for the sheer pleasure it gives.” \u00a0\u00a0Literary Review<\/strong><\/em>
\n“Sensitive and marvellously satisfying.” \u00a0\u00a0Financial Times<\/strong><\/em>
\n“Wonderfully funny and perceptive.” \u00a0\u00a0Cosmopolitan<\/strong><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]Final Draft: Reflections on Life\u00a0<\/i><\/b>\u00a0Peter Owen Publishers. Price: \u00a314.99[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”]BUY FROM AMAZON<\/a>[vc_empty_space height=”20px”]BUY FROM PETER OWEN<\/a>[vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][rev_slider_vc alias=”hp-slider”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”88″ img_size=”30×30″ alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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